..Restrictive annuloplasty and coronary artery revascularization promote reverse remodeling and remain the most common surgical treatment. Innovative subannular therapies and a number of percutaneous interventions are under investigation...

The role of shear stress in the pathogenesis of discrete subaortic stenosis: implications for surgical treatment

..Aneurysms harboring clot are a potential source of systemic embolization. Treatment is generally surgical; however, otherwise uncomplicated aneurysms have been safely followed using a more conservative strategy...

Imaging of right coronary artery ostial stents by transesophageal echocardiography

Jeffrey J SilbigerDepartment of Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 11373, USAEchocardiography 26:967-9. 2009

..Transesophageal imaging of ostial stents have rarely been described in the literature. Their characteristic echocardiographic findings are discussed...

..Consequently, the patient underwent surgery with insertion of a porcine bioprosthesis. Eighteen months postoperatively the patient developed a large prosthetic thrombus with severe aortic stenosis requiring reoperation...